Monday, February 21, 2011

Why do you call Him “our Lord?”

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 34.
Why do you call Him “our Lord?”

Answer. Because not with silver or gold, but with His precious blood,[1] He has redeemed and purchased us, body and soul,[2] from sin and from all the power of the devil, to be His own.[3]

[1] 1 Pt 1:18-19;
[2] Acts 2:36; 1 Cor 6:20, 7:23; 1 Tim 2:5-6; Tit 2:14; 1 Pt 2:9;
[3] Col 1:13-14; Heb 2:14-15

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